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Toad, you must not show this letter to Miss Mollie during the
school hours or you might illicit more than a smile from her. My love
letter on fool's cap will be too good for her not to laugh at it.
Let me hear from you often, and do...

Half-length tintype portrait of George A. Nichols (1845-1914) after losing his left eye at the Battle of Shiloh. He wears a civilian white shirt and dark jacket. The photograph is set in a decorative gilt gold frame.